THE GALAPAGOS—A low rumble, a cross between muffled mooing and distant foghorns, pierces the heavy air. This is what it sounds like when giant tortoises mate. The song is bizarre yet magically ...
More than a decade ago, P. Dee Boersma used crowbars and hammers to chisel a small hole out of lava on the Galápagos Islands, hoping to attract one of the world’s rarest penguins. Five months later, a ...
Ten Humboldt penguins are now living at the Houston Zoo, where they will be a centerpiece of the long-anticipated Galápagos Islands exhibit that opens next month. The first six penguins arrived at the ...